Home Health Care News September 27, 2023
There are significant differences in home-based medical care utilization between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare beneficiaries.
Specifically, having exactly one home-based medical care visit was 31 times as likely for MA beneficiaries, at 18.6%, compared to traditional Medicare beneficiaries at 0.6%.
That’s likely, in part, due to incentives in the MA program to code all accurate diagnoses, according to a new study published in Health Affairs this month.
When it comes to multiple home-based medical care visits, it’s a different story. While 2.1% of traditional Medicare beneficiaries receive multiple visits, only 1.6% of MA beneficiaries do.
One visit for a beneficiary may just mean an in-home assessment, which is an increasingly popular way for MA plans and other home-based...
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